Garment hanger



May 21, 1946. L. E. LAW 2,400,761

I GIARMENT HANGER Filed A ril 28, 1945 INVENTOR. Lester E. Law

$1 .5 v 5,, 5%; M kw 1'- 17 A TTORNEY Patented May 21, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIGE GARMENT HANGER V Lester E. Law, Connersville, Ind. Application April 28,1945, Serial No. 590,767

3 Claims.

This invention relates to garment hangers and more particularly to a clamping attachment for securing a garment to the cross wire connecting the inclined shoulder supporting portions of a coat hanger.

The invention has for its object to provide a clamping member in the form of a resilient bar hanger as illustrated in the accompanying drawing hereinafter described and particularly set forth in the appended claims, together with such variations and modifications thereof as will be apparent to one skilled in the art to which the invention pertains.

Reference should be had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the clamping member of the present invention employed to clamp the cuff portions of trousers to the cross wire of a coat hanger;

Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line indicated at 22 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line indicated at 3-3 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is an elevation of the clamping member viewed as indicated at 4-4 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the clamping bar;

Fig. 6 is an end view of the bar taken as indicated at 66 in Fig. 5, and

Fig. 7 is a section taken on the line indicated at 1-! in Fig. 5. i

In the accompanying drawing the invention is shown applied to a conventional wire coat hanger that comprises a hook I and a loop that con end that is offset outwardly toward the outer end of the flange and disposed substantially midway between the side edges of the flange.

As shown in Fig. 5 the bar is bowed longitudinally to provide a. longitudinally convex garment engaging face on the side from which the flanges 5 project. The bar 4 is also bowed transversely so that the garment engaging face is transversely concave as well as longitudinally convex.

When the clamping member 4 is secured to the cross wire of a coat hanger with a portion of the garment inserted between the cross wire 3 and the bar 4, the bar 4 is flattened against the garment when it is hooked to the cross wire and the resilience of the bar 4 causes it to exert a pressure against the portion of the garment in serted between the bar 4 and the wire 3. By reason of the transversely concave form of the garment engaging face of the bar 4, the bar 4 has opposite edges 8 that press against the garment above and below the cross wire 3 when the clamping bar is secured in place and bend the portion of the garment engaging the wire to more effective gripping action on the garment clamped by the bar.

It will be apparent that the device of the present invention provides a very convenient and easily applied clamping member for securing a garment to a cross wire of a coat hanger, that this clamping member can be very quickly and easily removed when it is desired to detach the garment from the hanger and that the clamping member is adapted to be supported upon the cfoss wire of a coat hanger when not in use.

It is to be understood that variations and modifications of the specific device herein shown and described for purposes of illustration, may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim is:

1. A garment clamping member for attachment to a coat hanger cross wire comprising an elongated resilient bar having end flanges pro- .iecting to one side thereof and provided with cross wire receiving slots opening to side edges thereof, said bar having a longitudinally convex transversely concave garment engaging face on the side from which the flanges project, said bar being adapted to clamp a garment against a coat hanger cross wire and to deflect the engaged portion of the cross wire to set up an effective gripping pressure along the length of portions of the bar and cross wire engaging the garment.

2. A garment clamping member for attachment to a coat hanger cross wire comprising an elongated resilient bar having end flanges projecting to one side thereof and provided with cross wire receiving slots opening to side edges thereof, said slots having wire seating portions at their inner ends located substantially midway between the side'edges of the flanges, the face of said bar on the side from which the flanges project being longitudinally convex so as to deflect a coat hanger cross wire to the longitudinal curvature of said face when said bar is engaged with a coat hanger cross wire and thereby exert pressure upon a garment inserted between the bar and hanger cross wire, the face of said bar on the side from which the flanges project also being transversely concave to provide garment enga ing edges above and below the cross wire.

wire receiving jseats ,:at their" inner edges that are -ofiset outwardly toward the outer ends of the flanges and located substantially midway between the side edges of the flanges, said bar being adapted to clamp a garment against a coat hanger cross wire and to deflect the engaged portion of the cross wire to set up an effective gripping pressure along the length of portions of the bar and cross wire engaging the garment.

LESTER E. LAW. 

